Sentence examples for a touching picture from inspiring English sources

After "The Banjo Lesson," however, he made only one painting about African-American life: "The Thankful Poor" (1894), a touching picture of a grandfatherly man and a boy in prayer at their humble dining table.

Rhys Ifans, who plays the Earl of Oxford, is a touching picture of aristocratic melancholy, his long face and hooded eyes suggesting the weariness of a decent, disappointed soul.

A touching picture of Moholy-Nagy at this period shows him on the promenade at Bexhill-on-Sea photographing the just completed De La Warr pavilion, whose architect, Erich Mendelsohn, was another recent exile from Berlin.

These endangered shelters – hang-out spots for drinking tea, playing games and watching TV (one has a satellite dish precariously rigged to it) – are a touching picture of vernacular life in Bahrain, a mental background on which to project the current violence.

Written in 1943 and set in the closing years of the 20th century, Old Man paints a touching picture of Britain 25 years after the worldwide communist revolution that Stapledon believed would eventually follow the madness of the second world war, despite the best efforts of the US corporations.

Selma Blair posted a touching picture Sunday of her reuniting with her horse months after she revealed she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

A truly touching picture of an intimate network, moving from center to periphery, emerges.

It's a small, touching picture about 17-year-old Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee) being sent from her Bangladeshi village to marry a pompous, insensitive, self-deceiving older man in London.

Midnight in Paris is a cinematic soufflé that rises to perfection, a wry, funny, touching picture, pursuing some of his favourite tropes and themes but with sufficient asperity to give a sting to the nostalgia it embraces.

Yet here's an uproarious and touching picture on that theme, directed by Greg Mottola, who made the 1997 independent film "The Daytrippers," and co-produced by Judd Apatow, who wrote and directed "Knocked Up".

The second picture showed one of the following three types of hand-object interactions: a) a hand touching an object ("touch" pictures); b) a hand grasping an object with a grip commonly employed for moving and placing it to another location ("place" pictures); c) a hand grasping an object with the grip typically employed for using that object ("use" pictures).